Halliday is the author of a memoir of the poet John Berryman and an account of the Allied invasion of Soviet of articles for The New Yorker. ... The author researched how Jefferson became a slave owner, his views on educating and emancipating slaves, and Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings. ... The author is a longtime senior editor of American Heritage magazine, makes Jefferson humanly understandable and handily summarizes his accomplishment and imperfection. ... Overall, this book shows how Thomas Jefferson was a truly great leader and a remarkable human being. ... I would recom...

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David Wilmot was the one who brought it up to the surface, yet it is not a proven fact he was the authentic author. ... Furthermore, if the great republic was to ever be shattered into fragments it would had consequently brought upon the attempts on the part of the advocates of human slavery to extend its dominion....

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• Grade Level: High School

The author's main purpose in this work is to expose the side of slavery that dehumanizes the slave person and cruelty they face each day. ... The author's message comes out for example on page 927 when he writes, "Mr. ... It held my attention and uncovered my emotions as I felt great sympathy for what he and his fellow slaves must have endured during those times. ... The author tells a story and you can see it unfold without having to be there. ... The author uses a lot of examples and goes into great detail with everything, making it a very interesting read. ...

• Word Count: 324
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Throughout the Revolutionary War American Colonist was fighting for many different causes, probably the most obvious was freedom form Great Britain. ... According to the authors Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and Prince Hall the American Colonist were no the only ones discriminated against in the late 1700s; African Americans were being discriminated as well. ... "Has Great Britain and enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for this accumulation of navies and armies? ...

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Author's Point of View: The author's point of view in this movie about Frederick Douglas is one that is clearly prejudice. ... The author viewed Frederick Douglas not only as a literary genius, but an underrated one due to the color of his skin. Frederick Douglas was a great motivational speaker and skilled writer. ... Abraham Lincoln was great president, but he did not particularly care for slavery. ... Prejudice The author of this film is clearly prejudice towards whites. ...

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Several different perspectives are used by the author as he writes about a time when Black Americans experienced a change in American History of no human rights to being free. The author brings a historical view of Douglas's past as a slave when he writes "this former slave". ... Robert Hayden also show social perspective of these times as he writes "beaten to his knees", which is a great example of the behavior and the social interaction Anglo Americans and Black Americans had back in those days. The Author with historical perspectives travels back in time and with social perspectives ...

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What intrigued me most in "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas" was when the author talks about how the slaves would sing songs on their way to the Great House Farm. ... Yes, they would sing on their way to the Great House Farm, but it was on those days that they could simply breathe and be away from the constant work on the field and away from under the driver's lash. ... So yes, these slaves did sing verses like "I am going away to the Great House Farm! ... The author himself states of how he had often sung to drown his sorrows and seldom to express his happiness. ... What...

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• Grade Level: High School

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass were authors during this struggle between north and south and each of them wrote powerful stories which became an integral part of American history. ... He describes with great detail the punishment he and other slaves received for not obeying their masters. ... Each author uses similar examples and stories to reveal the barbaric idea of slavery. ... She often goes into great detail to show the feelings that slaves had when separated from their families. ... Each author successfully represents the immorality of slavery in a distinctive yet straig...

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The author, Iyunolu Osagie, is from Sierra Leone where the slave ship "Amistad" took slaves. ... " In the introduction the author guides us through her history of Sierra Leone and how she never really heard the story of the Amistad revolt, as she would have liked too. Since the incident is a successful story against slave trading the author thinks it is something to be proud of and told more frequently to the communities of Sierra Leone. ... In conclusion, I think the author, Iyunolu Osagie, did an excellent job in achieving her task based on her purpose of writing the book. ......

• Word Count: 725
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Each author displays powerful qualities that illustrate their identity. ... It is hard to believe that somebody who stole food, was dirt poor, and could barely receive a healthy education would ever become such a great writer. ... The portrayal of people and events in both books is colored by the author's feelings. ... I believe the authors show similarity and differences in one another in many ways. ... Each author contains certain qualities which only few people have. ...

• Word Count: 1141
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• Grade Level: High School

She is a great writer who doesn't mind the fact that people call her a "black writer"" (Rothstein C17) or a "woman writer "(Rothstein C17) or even "black woman author " (Rothstein C17) because she feels that this makes her look bigger. ... Overall, this book was tough but great and it should not have been banned. ... Some people may not be mentally prepared to read some of the tougher material that authors put into their writing so these people decide they need to get rid of what's tough for them to read. ... However, in order to get the story that these authors have written, they h...

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• Grade Level: High School

In fact, we can say that Douglass's preface could stand for what Lejeune called the autobiographical pact which committed the author to tell his life story in a spirit of sincerity. ... So you have the title, the signature, the photograph and the preface which all function as a confirmation of the author's existence. ... Ever since the ancient Greeks, the West has placed great value on self-discovery and self-knowledge. ... Though, the narrative tells such a story it tells it an unusual way for instance the majority of autobiographies start with a birth date and a description of the ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the book "All God's Children" author Fox Butterfield delivered his point of view and his theory on the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence. Fox Butterfield was born in 1939 in Lancaster PA, graduating from Harvard University, Fox Butterfield became a famous journalist and author working with Times bureau chief in Saigon, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Boston and as a correspondent in Washington and New York. ... The author also goes into depth about past generations of the Bosket family dating all the way back to 1896 discussing the harsh realities that each...

• Word Count: 3198
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Title: Jackie Robinson Author: David A. Alder Copyright date: 1989 The setting begins in 1919, when Jackie Robinson was born near Cairo, Georgia. At the time it was bad to be black in Georgia. It was bad because Georgia was a slave state and Abraham Lincoln did not sign the emanci...

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Booker The author lived in the time of reconstruction, a period in which the North controlled and dominated the South, both politically and economically. ... With the disappearance of the slavery and of the great land property, the South began to decline, both in economy and culture. ... The image of the everyday life is highly important in his work, with a highlighted image of the cabin and the image, wish and desire of a free life, because the author remembers the discussions occurring after the Civil War. ...

• Word Count: 900
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• Grade Level: High School

The second article, written in 1721 by an unknown author, discusses Christian slaves during the time of slavery. ... In addition, the author also states there were also "many Christians in perpetual barbarous and unmerciful slavery" (American par. 3). ... By deeply analyzing these historical events, one might say that the slave rebellions did not achieve a great success in colonial America since they did not eventually get their freedom. ... Towards the end of the article by New York Weekly Journal, issue XXV, the author states "As private Pique and Resentment is of dangerous co...

• Word Count: 1397
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The author of the article is a very famous Newspaper, and seems to be looking to slavery through an excessively stated prejudice that commonly states that slavery was and it had always been in the hands of the Europeans. ... "The first business of one of our factors [agents] when he comes to Fida [Whydah] is to satisfy the customs of the king and the great men, which amounts to about a hundred pounds in Guinea value, as the goods must yield there. ... The author is a student of a speech class, which apparently discusses the issues of black slavery and the interactions between "blacks" and "Eur...

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He goes to great strengths to learn religion, improve himself, and adapt to Western mercantilism. ... The author keeps his African innocence and purity of intent; two qualities he finds greatly lacking in the Europeans. ... Both authors are great examples of writers that used these elements of literature to enhance their work. ... Either of the quotes could be used to persuade the reader to think of how unbearable the author's situation is, or how difficult it is to be on a slave ship during the voyage, and how fearful it would be to be held captive by Native Americans. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is also important to keep in mind that no author is completely neutral. ... The narratives were extremely popular in America and Britain at the time it could be argued that some of the narratives were simply repeating what had worked for other authors. ... The political motive may have led authors to exaggerate the cruelties they suffered. ... Douglass, however, "made the facts of his life a dramatic representation of the great political forces that constituted the nations over slavery" (1990: 3) It is important to recognise the differences between the economic texts and the narratives on ...

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Christopher Columbus was a great man; he discovered America the other story to this according to James lowen in lies my teacher told me is he killed many people in the process to claim this new world for England. ... James lowen author of lies my teacher told me shares some interesting facts that probably did not make it into your history classroom, for instance, by show of hands how many of you know the name martin Luther king? ... In this article author Shirley Engle explains that many college history professors know that history is full of controversy, yet they let it go only becoming trans...

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• Grade Level: High School

According to one of the contributing authors of Black Life and Culture in the United States, Colin A. ... People of all races considered Frederick Douglass to be a very persuasive spokesperson, with his vivid, insightful, and detailed stories of his great escape, he could make anyone in his audience feel as if they had been there during each incident. The author of Negro Thought in America 1880-1915, recollects about the Negro convention in which Douglass attended in his own defense. ... According to an online journal entitled, "Crevecoeur as a Man of Letters," author Ralph H. ... Thomas Phi...

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Olaudah Equiano, a native of the African province Eboe and author of The Interesting Narrative experienced the cruel and inhumane life of a slave. ... Nonetheless, the authors point is well taken; we are all influenced from birth by the inequities that surround us. ... Our great-grandparents were born into a predominantly racist society, only through time has this view become the minority opinion. ... "Life had lost its relish when liberty was gone" (120), but with great resolve, strength in the face of adversity and most importantly faith in God, he outlasted his oppression. ... Today his...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Referring to the slaves" feelings about the Great House Farm, and not his own elevates his position and disassociates himself from slavery in the reader's mind. "The slaves selected to go to the Great House Farm, for the monthly allowance for themselves and their fellow-slaves, were peculiarly enthusiastic (Douglass 270)." ... Humility allows people to recognize that there is something bigger and better, and Douglass became literate, an author, a freed man, and a respected historical figure in his lifetime....

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The director of movie tried to stay very close to the author's intent of the novel. ... The overall effect of the film on the viewer shows how the director achieved his purpose in trying to enhance the reality of slavery among people and inform viewers of the life of Kunta and his descendants, which are the same intents the author of Roots when the book was written. ... The choices of great actors, good background music, and the use of no special effects by the director make Roots very realistic and parallel to the intent of the book. ... Roots, the movie thoroughly provides the viewer o...

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Through her works of prose and poetry, this author presents herself as "a woman of learning" who clearly obtained some means of schooling in her past [ CITATION Gel12 l 1033 ]. ... At a time and place when men controlled everything, one could see the hesitancy of audiences in accepting a woman as a valid author or viewing Behn herself as a serious writer. ...

• Word Count: 2238
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate